Aberdeen Smaller Coms High Incm Trst : Co's Inc Tst PLC - Result of AGM
April 19, 2018 at 09:47 am EDT
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Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 19 April 2018
At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.
The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:
For (including discretionary)
Against
Withheld
1 Approve the annual report
5,748,523
263
3,463
2 Approval of Directors' remuneration report
5,621,382
110,588
20,278
3 Election of D Kent Kershaw
5,692,919
52,411
6,918
4 Re-election of D Fletcher
5,733,759
2,934
15,555
5 Re-election of R Lister
5,727,356
14,197
10,695
6 Election of B Rose
5,720,112
17,788
14,348
7 Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company
5,690,114
48,742
13,391
8 Authority for Directors to determine auditors' remuneration
5,726,793
15,787
9,668
9 Section 551 allotment
5,691,202
52,744
8,303
10 Disapplication of pre-emption rights
5,657,225
81,377
13,646
11 Share buyback authority
5,691,688
56,361
4,199
The total vote was 5.75 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above.
Resolutions 1 - 9 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 10 and 11 were special resolutions.
A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*. The document is also available for download from the Company's website,www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk
For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary
19 April 2018
*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
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abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The investment objective of the Company is to provide a high and growing dividend and capital growth from a portfolio invested principally in the ordinary shares of the United Kingdom smaller companies and the United Kingdom fixed income securities. The Company invests in equities, corporate bonds and preference shares. The Company aims to invest in the equity shares of smaller companies listed on a regulated United Kingdom stock market in order to gain growth in dividends and capital. Its portfolio of investments across various sectors include industrials, financials, consumer discretionary, real estate, technology, consumer staples, telecommunications and energy. Its alternative investment fund manager is abrdn Fund Managers Limited.
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